There are only a few hotels in Pago Pago, the capital city of American Samoa. The on-line travel agencies such as booking.com and expedia.com list only three. One, now called Sadie’s by the Sea, was once The Rainmaker Hotel. In its day, it was a first rate 200-room property. The last time I…
American Samoa is about a five-hour flight by jet almost due south from Hawaii. It is, in any number of ways, a unique place. Tropical, quite beautiful, and with a unique and fascinating culture. Samoa itself is about as “laid back” as it’s possible to be and, in fact, that’s really an inadequate description…
Some 25 or so years ago, George Wray had a one-man law practice in Pago Pago, American Samoa. George was a pilot as well as a lawyer and often flew his own plane to meet with clients in Apia, the capital city of Western Samoa, an independent nation just a 30-minute flight away. George made…
One of the unique aspects to Hawaii is our multi-racial society. It’s a fact that everyone living here is a member of a minority group. Among the many racial and ethnic groups living here are ethnic Samoans, some fairly recent arrivals from the American Samoa, the U.S. territory in the South Pacific, while others have…